Top 25 Quotes by Katha Pollitt of 31 - Page 2

For many people, feminism is one of those words of which, as St. Augustine said about time, they know the meaning as long as no one is asking.

For many people, feminism is one of those words of which, as St. Augustine said about time, they know the meaning as long as no one is asking.

Katha Pollitt

Long, People, Feminism

Katha Pollitt (1995). “Reasonable creatures: essays on women and feminism”

For me, to be a feminist is to answer the question 'Are women human?' with a yes.

Katha Pollitt

Feminist, Feminism, Answers

Katha Pollitt (1995). “Reasonable creatures: essays on women and feminism”

Like Broadway, the novel, and G-d, feminism has been declared dead many times

Katha Pollitt

Feminism, Broadway, Novel

My daughter, who goes to Stuyvesant High School only blocks from the World Trade Center, thinks we should fly an American flag out our window. Definitely not, I say: The flag stands for jingoism and vengeance and war.

Katha Pollitt

Daughter, Block, War

Katha Pollitt (2007). “Virginity or Death!: And Other Social and Political Issues of Our Time”, p.46, Random House

Thanks to feminism, women can now acquire status in two ways: through marriage or their own achievements. Cure cancer or marry the man who does, either way society will applaud. Unless he marries into the British royal family, it doesn't work that way for men. Wives shed no glory on their husbands. Having tea with Nancy Reagan is an honor; having tea with Denis Thatcher is a joke.

Katha Pollitt

Husband, Cancer, Men